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From: Nollaig MacKenzie on 5 May 2010 13:05 On 2010.05.05 01:15:45, the amazing <proto(a)panix.com> declared: (about Lord Kelvin) > Didn't he also say that the Sun couldn't shine long enough for evolution > to happen? If the Sun was heated by gravitational collapse. Figuring out how the Solar System could be as old as the Earth seemed to be was a headscratcher. -- Nollaig MacKenzie http://www.yorku.ca/nollaig
From: Nollaig MacKenzie on 5 May 2010 13:10 On 2010.05.04 22:08:26, the amazing <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> declared: > We know how gravity warps space-time? When did this happen? Better to say: gravity is warped space-time. -- Nollaig MacKenzie http://www.yorku.ca/nollaig
From: Mensanator on 5 May 2010 13:21 On May 5, 7:05 am, Walter Bushell <pr...(a)panix.com> wrote: > In article > <michelle-C54688.23171004052...(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > Michelle Steiner <miche...(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > In article > > <7b6d8ba5-ffab-4d20-b345-7085cf663...(a)b18g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, > > Mensanator <mensana...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > > > > That reminds me of the story about the guy who travels back in time to > > > > take Newton a calculator, thinking it would advance science. He is in > > > > the process of demonstrating some things when the answer happens to > > > > be, "666." Newton does not take that one well at all. > > > > What was the problem? Summing the integers from 1 to 36? > > > set x to 0 > > repeat with i from 1 to 36 > > set x to x + i > > end repeat > > 37*18 > > Sum of integers from 1 to n is ((n+1)*n)/2. > > And you don't even need induction to prove it. hint n-1 +2 = n+1 > etcetera. *Yawn* You want to put the fear of God into someone, show them this: http://mensanator.com/mensanator/joyofsix.htm > > -- > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 5 May 2010 13:24 Mensanator wrote: > Not exactly the same. Some people did have a natural immunity to > the bubonic plague. They were often the ones who lived. > > It has recently been discoved that this natural immunity (a > genetic mutation in the cell structure) also imparts immunity > to HIV (which attacks cells via a similar mechanism to bubonic > plague). There is a small percentage of bees that have natural immunity to the virus. As for HIV, if it were suddenly to general population and kill everyone who was not immune, there would be less than 1 in 4, possibly 1 in 10 left. Going back to the science fiction discussion, wasn't that one of the dreams in "The Lathe of Heaven"? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Walter Bushell on 5 May 2010 13:30
In article <qNSdnVP8Qo-IAnzWnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, Paul Magnussen <magiconinc(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Michelle Steiner wrote: > > > > In the Lensmen (or maybe the Skylark) series, FTL was > > accomplished by negating inertia, resulting in an inertialess drive. > > However, when regaining inertia, the ship (or other object) had its > > intrinsic velocity that it had at the moment it went inertialess. > > It was the Lensman series, but the trick was to neutralize inertia, not > negate it. The Boskonians apparently once attempted to negate inertia > by overdriving a Bergenholm, but even Kinnison couldn't understand why :-) To use the reaction drive as a weapon. You eject the rocket exhaust out your rear and move closer to the object you want destroyed. Any attempt to push you away brings you closer. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. |